The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
ANTALYA, Turkey - How are phones and cards changing the ways the global poor access and manage their money, and what should governments and financial institutions do to ensure innovative pr…
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Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
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Pledges to Improve Access to Finance and Markets for the Poor by Supporting Shift to Electronic Payments…
CRS Commits to Increase Electronic Payments to Strengthen Local Economies…
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New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all.
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This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post
One Million Low-Income People to Reap Benefits of Digital Money
In joining the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute will work to increase the number of electronic transactions undertaken throughout its global membersh…
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Blockchain Series: Blog 4
The World Bank and the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) recently hosted the Third Meeting of the CPSS – World Bank Retail Payments Forum in Perugia, Italy.
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.
Successful digitization of P2G payments and its widespread adoption by users is achievable - but depends on the alignment of various important factors.